Sybilla Mittell Weber

Sybilla Mittell Weber (1892–1957) was an American artist known for her etchings and drypoints of dogs and horses. She was trained by an Austrian animal painter at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and by an American etcher at the Art Students League. With the skills they taught her, she embarked upon a long and well-to-do career during which she employed received techniques to achieve results that drew consistent essential praise. Admired for her facility in animal portraiture and for her talent to picture animals in action, she was said to use an "economy of line" to achieve a style situated between the extremes of unqualified realism and fixed idea abstraction.